Good Lord, she gets around, this Lulu. Spreads herself about a bit. A couple of plays by Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit, 1895, and Pandora’s Box, 1904). An opera by Alban Berg. At least four films, including the GW Pabst classic reworking of Pandora’s Box, featuring the legendary Louise Brooks sporting that haircut. A character in […]

Dear Diary: Lisa Wolfe reports on a weekend spent in the company of  a feisty bunch of Old Dears at Chelsea Theatre, the culminating event of Sacred 2015  Friday 27 November 8pm Batten down the hatches – we’re entering choppy waters. Old Dears, a weekend of radical feminist performance by an older generation of women, […]

Time is waiting in the wings. Again. Deja Vu. Chelsea Theatre, Sacred Season 2015. A show about the nature, and perception, of time. Last week, Project O’s Voodoo; this week, the new show by Sylvia Rimat, This Moment Now. We start with a riff on time, a beating of time. Sylvia is noticeably absent. We have […]

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th birthday of seminal North London venue Jacksons Lane, Gandini Juggling’s new show meta is a glorious concoction of many of the ideas that the company have explored over the last 25 years – ultimately recalling their earliest experiments with the choreographer Gill Clarke. Built around Abbott and Costello’s famous baseball […]

A blacked out window of a shopfront in the trendy Echo Park area of Los Angeles stands in front of me. The words ‘RETURN TO FOREVER HOSUE’ have been pasted to the window. I wait outside, six others wander up, and we begin to tentatively talk to each other – How did you hear about […]